Laravel Sequence Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Build vs. buy for sequence/identifier generation: Evaluating whether to hand-roll invoice numbers, order IDs, ticket numbers, or SKUs versus adopting a thin, maintained package. laravel-sequence targets the common "human-readable, gap-free-ish sequential number per model/scope" need so engineering doesn't reinvent locking and race-condition logic.
• Framework upgrade timing (Laravel 12): The 1.2.0 release confirms Laravel 12 compatibility. This directly informs roadmap decisions about when the platform can move to Laravel 12 without carrying a blocking dependency, and whether this package stays in the "supported dependency" allowlist.
• Roadmap for features requiring stable identifiers: Any feature area that needs sequential, per-scope numbering (billing/invoicing, order management, ticket/queue systems, document numbering, multi-tenant per-tenant counters) can treat this package as a low-risk building block rather than a bespoke subsystem.
• Dependency risk posture: Style-only changes plus an additive compatibility bump signal a small, actively maintained surface area — useful input for "keep, replace, or abstract behind an interface" decisions.

When to Consider This Package

Consider adoption when:

• You need sequential numbers scoped per model or per tenant (invoice numbers, order numbers, ticket IDs) rather than UUIDs/ULIDs alone.
• You require concurrency-safe generation under load (multiple writers, retries, queues) and want to avoid home-grown locking bugs.
• You prioritize human-readable, ordered identifiers for customer-facing documents or reconciliation.
• Your codebase is on a Laravel version this package supports (now including Laravel 12) and you want a lightweight, single-purpose dependency.
• You want an abstraction seam: wrapping the package behind your own service/interface lets you swap it later without touching domain code.

Look elsewhere when:

• You need globally distributed, offline, or collision-resistant IDs at massive scale — prefer UUIDv7/ULID/Snowflake-style generators.
• You require strict gap-free guarantees across failures (regulatory accounting serials with audit requirements); validate the package's locking/rollback semantics or use a dedicated accounting-grade numbering service.
• You need rich numbering policies (year resets, format templates with complex logic, per-branch prefixes) — either confirm coverage or plan to build formatting on top.
• You are on an unsupported Laravel version or a DB environment whose locking semantics aren't validated for your workload.
• The team would rather own a 20-line custom solution for a single trivial counter where concurrency risk is negligible.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives: This is a small, focused open-source dependency for generating sequential numbers like invoice and order IDs. The new 1.2.0 release adds Laravel 12 support, which keeps our upgrade path open and removes a potential blocker for our next framework upgrade. It's low-cost to adopt, actively maintained, and reduces the risk of bugs in customer-facing numbering — a good trade of build effort for a stable building block.

For engineering: laravel-sequence (GuavaCZ) handles concurrency-safe sequential generation scoped per model/tenant, so we don't hand-roll locking for invoice/order numbering. 1.2.0 is a minor, additive release: Laravel 12 compatibility plus cosmetic style fixes — no breaking changes or deprecations. Recommendation: adopt behind an internal wrapper interface to keep it swappable, validate gap/locking behavior against our DB and workload, and pin the version. Reassess if requirements grow to globally distributed IDs or strict gap-free regulatory serials.